Soft Riot's Ghostwriter video, from Crux, is built from hand-animated paper figures. Our review of what works and the chorus that overstays.

The track "Lucky Charm" by London-based British/French electronic group Hard Corps had numerous versions of it when it was released in 1987.

Jack Duckworth has spent years making Soft Riot records that seem to know exactly how ridiculous modern life is, then politely invite the machines responsible over for dinner. On his latest LP, Crux, ...

"Heartbreak", a track by mid/late noughties UK synth/rock group Late Of The Pier has a number of cool peculiarities that stand out all these years later.

This track by turn-of-the-millenium dark post-punk group Love Life from Baltimore from a ThreeOneG single gets a looking at, as well as related projects.

The main soundtrack theme the 1971 film "Klute" by American composer Michael Small, and a look at the style of experimental scores of that decade.

A look at this track by Miami-based artist Staccato du Mal, the NYC label Wierd Records and more so a personal look at the ongoing post-punk revival.

Get to know SOFT RIOT and the story behind Crux.

I've never really listened to Led Zeppelin, but on a whim I decided to listen in depth and found this track, not unlike Glass Candy & The Shattered Theatre.

This classic theme by Gheorghe Zamfir from the 1975 film Picnic At Hanging Rock tends to drift into my head in certain landscapes.

With two deluxe re-issues of their material in recent years, here's a look at the opening track from the post-hardcore band Shotmaker's final album.

With obscurities in minimal and underground synth still being unearthed after two decades, here's a look at a track by the Irish group Operating Theatre.

A longer piece about Daddy's Hands — a band that was from the west coast of Canada that no-one has heard of, yet whose influence still lingers.

A look at a track from the only album from Arcadia, a slightly goth-inflected group formed when Duran Duran briefly broke up in the 80s, scooped from a charity shop.

After a recent chance to see Sparks live in Glasgow, here's a look an absolutely sublime yet the most understated track from No. 1 In Heaven (1979).

This week's collection of independent releases spans an incredible sonic spectrum, from the nostalgic French chanson of a lost 1977 album found roadside to the violent punk rock jolts of Coma Beach...

Sitting around as a draft for months, here's a look at a favourite track from trail-blazing sonic post-punks Chrome from their album Red Exposure.

Britsko-kanadský synth autor Jack Duckworth vydává nové album, na kterém dál rozvíjí vlastní napětí mezi post-punkem, darkwave, minimal wave, italem a EBM. Glasgowský projekt Soft Riot, za kterým stoj...

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A news update on everything going on with Soft Riot and the new, forthcoming album Crux and where things will go in the near future.

The one LP called Expensive Sound by the UK post-punk band Empire that years later would be championed by the DC Hardcore scene and even The Stone Roses.